By Czech road racing statistician Jan Vavra, latest stats compilation on Road Racing News, sees him look in-to the 100 speediest racers presently at his home nations’, most famous roads circuit, Horice.
Covering racers best lap-times from 300 Curves of Gustav Havel, Czech TT/IRRC events, 64 riders have recorded laps below 2 minutes 20 seconds.
In numerical order, the present 1-100 fastest Horice exponents featuring racers from seventeen nations, reads as follows:
(Quickest Horice race lap time located near racers name)
1 – David Datzer (Germany) – 2.12.041 (Unofficially lapped quicker in IRRC SBK qualifying last year – 2.11.843)
2 – Erno Kostamo (Finland) – 2.12.449
3 – Lukas Maurer (Switzerland) – 2.13.220
4 – Didier Grams (Germany) – 2.13.948
5 – Come Geenen (Belgium) – 2.14.085
6 – Patrick Hoff (Germany) – 2.14.237
7 – Danny Webb (England) – 2.14.294 (UK’s quickest Horice exponent)
8 – Marek Cerveny (Czech Republic) – 2.14.761
9 – Davey Todd (England) – 2.15.084
10 – Luca Gottardi (Italy) – 2.15.117
11 – Vincent Lonbois (Belgium) – 2.15.184
12 – Sebastien Le Grelle (Belgium) – 2.15.185
13 – Johannes Schwimmbeck (Germany) – 2.15.538
14 – Petr Najman (Czech Republic) – 2.15.636
15 – Joey den Besten (Netherlands) – 2.15.721
16 – Kamil Holan (Czech Republic) – 2.15.762
17 – Petr Biciste (Czech Republic) – 2.15.850
18 – Jorn Hamberg (Netherlands) – 2.16.142
19 – Adam McLean (Northern Ireland) – 2.16.220
20 – Virgil-Amber Bloemhard (Netherlands) – 2.16.265
21 – Markus Karlsson (Sweden) – 2.16.331
22 – Karel Pesek (Czech Republic) – 2.16.423
23 – Tomas Toth (Slovakia) – 2.16.786
24 – Ales Nechvatal (Czech Republic) – 2.17.233
25 – Laurent Hoffmann (Belgium) – 2.17.296
26 – Michael Pearson (Northern Ireland) – 2.17.445
27 – Rhys Hardisty (Wales) – 2.17.468
28 – Wolfgang Schuster (Germany) – 2.17.766
29 – Pavel Tomecek (Czech Republic) – 2.17.769
30 – Johan Fredriks (Netherlands) – 2.17.849
31 – Tomas Borovka (Czech Republic) – 2.17.883
32 – Derek Sheils (Ireland) – 2.17.971
33 – Marcel Elsner (Germany) – 2.17.980
34 – Patrik Vostarek (Czech Republic) – 2.18.078
35 – Jonathan Goetschy (France) – 2.18.122
36 – Jamie Coward (England) – 2.18.177
37 – Jiri Drazdak (Czech Republic) – 2.18.254
38 – Michal Dokoupil (Czech Republic) – 2.18.319
39 – Jochem van den Hoek (Netherlands) – 2.18.379
40 – Ilja Caljouw (Netherlands) – 2.18.473
41 – Pierre Yves Bian (France) – 2.18.480
42 – Thomas Walther (Germany) – 2.18.618
43 – Nadieh Schoots (Netherlands) – 2.18.700
44 – Matthieu Lagrive (France) – 2.18.757
45 – Karel Brandtner (Czech Republic) – 2.18.801
46 – Petr Cermak (Czech Republic) – 2.19.000
47 – Gary Johnson (England) – 2.19.009
48 – Forest Dunn (England) – 2.19.123
49 – Florian Astner (Austria) – 2.19.158
50 – Anssi Koski (Finland) – 2.19.300
51 – David Hanzalik (Slovakia) – 2.19.346
52 – Ales Sykora (Czech Republic) – 2.19.381
53 – Petr Zrzavy (Czech Republic) – 2.19.415
54 – Leos Hlavacek (Czech Republic) – 2.19.474
55 – Nico Muller (Germany) – 2.19.510
56 – Michal Vecko (Czech Republic) – 2.19.586
57 – Amalric Blanc (France) – 2.19.589
58 – Eddy Ferre (France) – 2.19.612
59 – Juha Kalio (Finland) – 2.19.620
60 – Mauro Poncini (Switzerland) – 2.19.687
61 – Jiri Broz (Czech Republic) – 2.19.704
62 – Dan Kneen (Isle of Man) – 2.19.735
63 – Romain Cleaz-Savoyen (France) – 2.19.831
64 – Rene Grundei (Germany) – 2.19.926
65 – Richard Sedlak (Czech Republic) – 2.20.042
66 – Jochen Rotter (Austria) – 2.20.074
67 – Jiri Petrla (Czech Republic) – 2.20.147
68 – Josef Duchan (Czech Republic) – 2.20.257
69 – Thomas Wendel (Germany) – 2.20.360
70 – Rico Vetter (Germany) – 2.20.367
71 – Christian Schmitz (Germany) – 2.20.491
72 – Timo Schonhals (Germany) – 2.20.499
73 – Josef Luksik (Czech Republic) – 2.20.513
74 – Darryl Anderson (Northern Ireland) – 2.20.654
75 – Shaun Anderson (Northern Ireland) – 2.20.736
76 – Max Gaube (Germany) – 2.20.863
77 – Sebastian Frotscher (Germany) – 2.20.876
78 – Thomas Altenhuber (Austria) – 2.20.958
79 – Vincent Guillermin (France) – 2.21.082
80 – Stephane Bednarek (France) – 2.21.114
81 – Julien Cregniot (France) – 2.21.116
82 – Alex Polita (Italy) – 2.21.117
83 – Vitezslav Bican (Czech Republic) – 2.21.120
84 – Matti Seidel (Germany) – 2.21.166
85 – Miroslav Sloboda (Slovakia) – 2.21.236
86 – Andreas Gangl (Austria) – 2.21.266
87 – Petr Plichta (Czech Republic) – 2.21.280
88 – Matous Ondrusz (Czech Republic) – 2.21.342
89 – Christian Steinhauser (Italy) – 2.21.353
90 – Darryl Tweed (Northern Ireland) – 2.21.396
91 – Udo Reichmann (Germany) – 2.21.422
92 – Emil Krchnavy (Slovakia) – 2.21.439
93 – Miroslav Pazitny (Czech Republic) – 2.21.446
94 – Petr Wiesenberg (Czech Republic) – 2.21.448
95 – Tiziano Rosati (Italy) – 2.21.577
96 – Pontus Rostlinger (Sweden) – 2.21.677
97 – Anders Blacha (Denmark) – 2.21.722
98 – Olivier Lupberger (Switzerland) – 2.21.967
99 – Petr Homola (Czech Republic) – 2.22.063
100 – Kai Zentner (Germany) – 2.22.094
Photo credit: Mark Corlett
Words by Jan Vavra
